collusion with alleged collusion of the truck campaign with the russians bore fruit and don't trump won the election what his mandate might be legitimate. we didn't know enough to know whether there was anything to it so i actually don't remember thinking about that we were beginning investigation we knew the russians are not disagreeing with you the russians are messing with our election separate question was were any americans helping them and we didn't know that at the time and by the way but you had some chance because not a we had reason to investigate we knew the russians were doing something we had whispers of information that some americans might be working with them i didn't know that and again this is what people sometimes confuse hillary clinton was the subject of that investigation that opened began publicly and closed publicly in two thousand sixteen thousand trump was not the subject of any investigation during that election it was just a geisha campaign and therefore by association it was intended as well well in